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> On Feb 18, 2016, at 12:59 PM, Britton Kerin (britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:32 AM, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> The excuse is that doing that will lead to bugs.
> >> 
> >> The context was "what should gnetlist allow?"  The answer is:
> >> everything it can.  If the downstream tools have limits, let them
> > 
> > I disagree.  It doesn't add much to accept weird characters.  UTF-8 is
> > full of chars that *look* identical but compare non-equal, its nuts to
> > send them to anything except a human reader if you can avoid it.
> 
> It’s a UTF-8 world, we should be part of it. But you can’t even avoid the problem in ASCII. 0 and O. Or 1, I, l, and |.

Yes and there is a label "Made in China" on the backside of almost every product on the desktop.


> >> manage those limits themselves.  Why should gnetlist, or even a
> >> netlist backend, limit what *it* can handle, if it doesn't have to?
> > 
> > Because you *know* it's gonna break downstream stuff,
> 
> But you don’t know which characters break which downstream stuff. Should gnetlist restrict netnames to upper case for SPICE?

If characters should be restricted gnetlist must know which characters to restrict.

> > And that's the case here: the user doesn't know wtf is going on and
> > that the problem is really upstream of gnetlist.  It would be better
> > to set up gnetlist st by default it pukes on weird stuff that's going
> > to confuse downstream stuff.  If user's want kanji let them set an
> > option to get it.
> 
> I completely disagree. The toolkit’s job is to enable the user to do what they need, not to get in their way.

To restrict characters which happen to be ordinary character in a language is certainly not good at all. Noqsi is right the toolkit's job is to enable user to do what they need although the best would be to figure characters not possible to use.


Nicklas Karlsson